Score indicator for boxing and the like



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Leo 7." Kaufman Patented Sept. 16, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICESCQRE INDICATOR FOR BOXING AND THE LIKE Leo 'r. Kaufman, Chicago, 111.

Application November 7, 1949, Serial No. 125,946

(o1. zss cs) 7 Claims. .1

This invention has as its principal object the provision of a scoretally for use in judging boxing matches and like contests in which afixed total of score points is always awarded for each round or period,and in which said total is variously divided between two participatingcontestants or opponents according to an award to each participant oropponent based upon the merit of his performance in any given round orperiod of action.

In boxing matches conducted in accordance with one widely accepted setof rules, the sum total of points to be scored in any given round is 10.Accordingly, the IO-point system is alluded to hereinafter.

Some examples of point awards which would be made in judging a matchaccording to this system are as follows:

If the round vis even each fighter receives points; if one fighter winsthe round the score is 6 to 4 in favor of the winner of the round. Ifone fighter scores a knockdown the score is 7 to 3. If one fighterscores two or more knockdowns the score is 8 to 2.

These examples are illustrative of the fact that the number of pointsawarded in any round always yields the sum of 10.

Accordingly, one of the detailed objects of the invention is theprovision of a score card for boxing having a plurality .of tallyslides, one for each round of the bout. and each slidable to a positiontoindicate the number of points awarded to each contestant for aparticular round; and said tally slides each carry a set of numbers socontrived asto total points in any position whenever the slide is movedto award one contestant a determined number of points.

Additional objects and aspects of utility and novelty pertain to detailsof the construction and operation of the illustrative embodimentsdepicted in the annexed drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of one form of score card with portions cut awayto expose parts of the tally slides;

Fig. 2 is a foreshortened horizontal sectional view looking in thedirection of lines 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical section looking in the direction oflines 3-3 of Fig.1;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a modified form of score card;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary vertical sectional detail looking in thedirection of lines 55 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the card of Fig. l with additional illustrativematter depicted on the front face;

Fig. 7 is a plan view of one of the tally slides illustrating thegrouping and totalizing arrange ment of the digits; I

Fig. 8 is a vertical section through the card looking in the directionof lines 8-8 of Fig. 6 with a magnified portion to show the compositionof the card faces;

Fig. 9 is a plan View of tally slide for the modified construction ofFig. i;

The form of score card shown in Fig. l in cludes a front card Hi and aback card H (see also Figs. 2 and 3), between which are a pin rality ofhorizontal spacer strips l2 adhered to the cards In and II and definingchannels [3 in which are fitted tally slides l4.

On the slide MA (Fig. 7) are two groups of digits I 5 and [6 arrangedseriatim along the slide bar and separated by a space H.

Under each of the two columnar caption points in Fig. 1 is a verticalcolumn of circular windows or sight openings 18. Each sight opening inthe several columns overlies one of the tally slides l4; and saidopenings being uniformly spaced crosswise of the card (and lengthwise ofthe slides) a predetermined distance relative to the spacing of thedigits in each group It or [6, and relative to the spacing ll betweensaid groups.

In accordance with the aforesaid spacing of the number digits andwindows, upon positioning a tally slide (by pulling the same outwardlyof the card, toward the right from the normal fully inserted position),as illustrated by the slide MA in Figs. 1 0r 6, so that some digitappears before a corresponding sight opening, there will r sult theappearance of a complementary digit before the opposite window in thesame slide line, such that the arithmetic sum of the said two digitswill always be Ill.

Further examples of the totalizing function of the individual slides areillustrated in Fig. 1, beginning with the slide MA, which is in normalor zero position, and reading up to the slide MB, which is positioned todisplay the digits 7 and 3. The next slides MC and MD, being diiferentlypositioned, respectively display the digits 6 and 4, and 5 and 5; and ineach instance where the slides are appropriately displaced from normal,the sum of the digits reading crosswise is always It.

To determine the points awarded to each con= testant, the digitsappearing in each vertical column under points is totaled for entryinthe correspondingVtotal block 20 (Fig. 5).

As in Figs. 1. 6 and 7, the righthand or exposed end of each'slide I4 isof a length to form a tab [4X sufficiently long to afford a grasp areaand also to carry a brief advertising legend, as indi= cated by theabbreviation Adv.

Moreover, all forms of the device are provided with extended legend orimprint-receiving areas 2 I, 22, the former being, for example, utilizedfor instruction data and point-awarding rules pertinent to theparticular point-scoring indicia carried by the several slides, and thelatter area 22 being utilized for other data such as an advertisingmessage.

The extended areas 2| and 22 are rigidified by inserts HA and 22a (Figs.3 and 8) which are larger in area than the horizontal spacer strips l2,but which are similarly cemented to and between the front and back facesor plates of the card elements l and II.

Cardboard is the preferable material employed in constructing the card,although any other suitable material may be used.

In the form of score tally shown in Fig. 6 (corresponding structurallyto the embodiment of Fig. 1) are areas designated Right corner and Leftcorner in which may be pictures of the contestants for a given match forwhich the cards are especially prepared.

In the modified form of Fig. 4 the construc= tion of the card is thesame as that of Fig. 1 in all respects, with the exception thathorizontal tab slots 30 are formed in the left and right columns in thefront or top card IDA, said slots overlying an edge of the correspondingtally slide Hz, the latter omitting the tab projections 142;. As inFigs. 5 and 9, these modified slides MZ have integral, upturned grasptabs 14W, each project ing upwardly through the corresponding slit 39 soas to be manually engageable for purposes of sliding the respectiveslides back and forth.

The objects and advantages of the invention may be realized bymodifications of the 001m mercial embodiment described in detail forpurposes of illustration, without departing from the intended and fairscope of the annexed claims.

I claim:

1,. A score card for boxing based upon a point per round award systemfor two contestants, said card having two vertical columns of sightopenings, slides in said card and each movable transversely of saidcolumns beneath one opening and a companion opening in each corresponding to one round and each column, said slides each having digitsspaced lengthwise of the slide such that the positioning of any slide todisplay any digit before either of the two corresponding sight openingswill display a complementary digit in the companion opening, and any twodigits thus displayed by any said slide always yield the sum of 10,indicia means on the card between each pair of companion openings andidentifying the latter respectively with a certain round of boxing, andindicia means on the card and associated with each column of sightopenings to correlate said columns respectively with a certain boxingcontestant.

2. A score card for boxing and based upon an award system in which themaximum award for any round is 10 points, and the two contestants areawarded points in each round 'in amounts of whole numbers, the total ofwhich is always 10 per round, said card comprising, to wit: a card bodyhaving a plurality of horizontally-em tensive, parallel slide groovesformed therein, a tally slide movable in each said groove, each slidecorresponding to the point-award tally for one round, a pair ofuniformly and horizontally spaced windows in a face of said bodyoverlying '4 each said slide, said pairs of windows being respectivelyaligned in vertical columns for vertical totaling of the numbers exposedby the windows belonging in each said column indicia means on the cardassociated with each column of windows and relating the same with aparticular contestant, each said slide having thereon two identicalgroups of numbers so spaced relative to each other and the correspondingpair of windows that the positioning of any given number in one of saidgroups before one window of said pair by appropriate movement of thecorresponding slide to an indicative position, will cause acomplementary number to appear before the remaining window of said pair,such that the horizontally read total of the pair of numbers thusexposed will always yield the sum of 10'.

3. A score card according to claim 2 and in which said tally slides areeach longer than the width of said card body, and the positioning ofsaid two groups of numbers thereon is so disposed as to provide blanksbefore the corresponding windows when said slides are in normal,fully-inserted, position in their respective grooves, and such that eachsaid slide has, in said normal position, a grasp tab projecting beyondat least one side margin of said card body.

4. A tally card for boxing in which the scoring is based upon aten-point per round award system for two contestants, said card havingten horizontally movable sliders thereon and having a pair of sightopenings overlying each said slide and spaced apart lengthwise of saidslides, each sight opening of each pair being adapted to designate thescore per round for a particular one of two contestants, there beingindicia on the front of said card in the space between the sightopenings of each said pair to designate a particular round of boxing towhich the corresponding slide appertains, the indicia on each said slideconsisting of two groups of identical digits serially arrangedlengthwise of the slide to read incrementally outward from the innermostdigit of each group, said groups being separated by a mid-space on theopposite sides of which are the lowest digital numbers -2 for each saidgroup, each said lowest digit being followed by the digits -3- to -8-inclusive reading outwardly as aforesaid in opposite directions towardthe opposite ends of the corresponding slide, such that any pair ofdigits selected from corresponding relative positions in both groupswill total 10, the relative spacing of said digits, mid-space, andopenings for each slide being such as to permit movement of any slide toexpose two digits totalling 10 before any corresponding pair of windows.

5. A score tally for boxing based upon a ten= point per round system,and comprising a card having ten horizontally movable slides arranged inparallelism and each slide of a length longer than the width of the cardso that a tab portion of each slide projects beyond one side of the cardwhen the slide is fully slid intothe card in a normal starting position;said card having a round-designating number overlying each slide todesignate a round to be tallied by the corresponding slide, said rounddesignating numbers being arranged in vertical alignment and readingconsecutively downwardly; said card having a' pair of tally windowsoverlying each slide', the windows of each pair lying on opposite sides,horizontally, of the corresponding round desigs nating number; eachslide having two groups of numbers each reading from -2- to -8 outwardlytoward an opposite end of the slide and spaced relative to theappertaining pair of Windows such that one number in each group willappear before one of said windows of the appertaining pair when theslide is moved from said normal position to a tallying position, and thetotal of the numbers appearing in any tallying position for any slideyields the sum of the windows on each side of the column of rounddesignating numbers being arranged in vertical columnar alignment fortotalizing purposes and indieia on the card adjacent each column ofwindows respectively relating the latter with a particular contestant.

6. In a tally card, a card body including spaced front and back cardmembers joined as a unit: a plurality of slider strips each having apair of internal tabs offset from a longitudinal edge thereof to projectsubstantially at right angles thereto, said sliders being situatedbetween said front and back card members to slide therebetween inapproximate parallelism, said front card member having a pair oflongitudinally spaced slits therethrough to overlie each said slider inguiding alignment therewith and with the corresponding tabs such thateach of the latter projects through, and works in, one of said slits inthe corresponding pair for manual engagement to manipulate thecorresponding slider.

7. A tally card for boxing based upon a tenpoint award system andcomprising a card body having a front and back face, a plurality ofelongated sliders mounted in said body to slide in approximateparallelism between said front and back faces, a pair of windows formedin said front face over each slider, the windows of each pair beingspaced apart uniformly in the direction of movement of the correspondingslider; round-identifying indicia on said front face 6 overlying eachslider and intermediate the windows of the corresponding pair of windowswhereby each slider and appertaining pair of windows is identified ascorresponding to a particular slider; a pair of elongated, slits in saidfront face adjacent and parallel to each slider, each slit of a pairbeing located between an edge of the card and one of said windows sothat each pair of windows is flanked by a pair of slits; a pair ofintegral tabs on each slide, each tab of each pair projecting throughone of said slots of the appertaining pair and beyond said front facefor manual engagement in manipulation of the slide and to guide thelatter in sliding motion; each slide having two groups of digitsthereon, the digits .in each group reading consecutively from -2- to -8-outwardly toward an end of the slider, said digits being respectivelyspaced for pairing so that one digit in each group will appear beforeone of said windows when a complementary digit of the companion group isapparent before the other window, and any pair of complementary digitsbefore the windows as aforesaid totals 10.

LEO T. KAUFMAN.

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